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1) Dead. 2) Alive. 3) Somewhere in between.
by colinm 13y ago
1) Dead.
2) Alive.
3) Somewhere in between.
- SilasX 13y ago1) non-life: rocks, water, sand 2) definitely life: animals, plants, fungi 3) self-replicating systems that stay far from equilibrium for a substantial time: hurricanes, fire, Benard cells, viruses
- anigbrowl 13y ago3) One of those things is not like the others - the abstracted information and constructed envelope of a virus seems qualitatively different to me, since that structure doesn't depend on external factors for its basic coherence. +1 for mentioning Benard cells, did not know of those.